# Quote & Ask: Hermes Agent plugin

> Codex-style ask-about-selection for Hermes Desktop: select text anywhere in a conversation, and a small pill appears above the selection offering Quote & ask — the selection lands in the message composer as a Markdown…

Canonical: https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins/quote-ask  
Tier: Community  
Official page (Nous Research): https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/quote-ask  
Last updated in catalog: 2026-10-17

Codex-style ask-about-selection for Hermes Desktop: select text anywhere in a conversation, and a small pill appears above the selection offering Quote & ask — the selection lands in the message composer as a Markdown quote with the caret on the line below, ready for your question — or Copy, which puts the same Markdown quote on the clipboard. A command-palette entry does the same without the pill. Desktop-only (desktop/plugin.js inside the plugin SDK surface): no agent tools, hooks, middleware or env vars, nothing written to disk, nothing persisted.

## Good to know before installing

Reads window.getSelection() and the selection rectangle; serializes the selection to Markdown (fenced code with its language, nested lists, bold/italic, links), cut at 4000 characters; writes the draft through host.composer (getDraft/setDraft, falling back to insertText, then ctx.os.writeClipboard) and focuses the composer; ignores selections made inside the composer itself and hides on collapse, scroll or Escape. No network calls, no credentials, no telemetry.

From the plugin's catalog listing.

## How to install

1. Install it. Hermes asks for any API keys it needs, then asks whether to turn it on.

```bash
hermes plugins install quote-ask
```

2. Said no? Turn it on later:

```bash
hermes plugins enable quote-ask
```

3. Restart Hermes so it loads the plugin.

Some plugins also need a sign-in or settings: see the official page. Memory plugins ask whether to become your memory provider instead. Steps follow the official plugins guide: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/plugins

## Facts

- Category: Hermes Desktop add-ons
- Maintained by: freefate258 (Community)
- Needs: No API keys declared
- Works on: linux, macos, windows
- Requires Hermes: `>=0.21.5`
- Version: 0.1.0
- In the catalog since: 2026-10-17

## Links

- [Full setup and settings (official page)](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/quote-ask)
- [Source code](https://github.com/freefate258/quote-ask#readme)
- [All plugins](https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins.md)

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